Archive for the 'mysql' Category
Friday, May 6th, 2011
An article about MySQL InnoDB checkpoint-ing mechanism written by Perconna folks. Read comments as well, several PostgreSQL core committers have participated in the discussion.
“InnoDB’s checkpoint algorithm is not well documented. It is too co…
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Friday, May 6th, 2011
How MySQL InnoDB implements transaction log, aka REDO (Oracle), aka WAL (PostgreSQL)
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Friday, May 6th, 2011
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Friday, April 29th, 2011
blog posts that describes how MySQL InnoDB flushes data to disk (also see bgwriter, checkpoint_* parameters in PostgreSQL)
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Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
Sysbench-based benchmark comparing OLTP workloads for different builds and forks of MySQL on 64-core intel machine (Quad Intel Xeon L7555 ) . Only one definitive result is that MySQL cannot scale beyond 8 or 16 cores, or in some cases beyond just 2 cor…
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
An article from a well-known PostgreSQL developer comparing MySQL InnoDB and PostgreSQL table structures
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
SQL-proxy/filtering software for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, used to prevent SQL-injection-like attacks, filter-out dangerous SQL, etc
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